Dartford 0 Gillingham 5: Match reaction from Gills boss Neil Harris

Gillingham manager Neil Harris was pleased to see his side show a more ruthless side on Saturday.

It wasn’t perfect - Harris watched his side score five and felt they could have had more - but with chances being created at will there was a lot more on offer from the Gills going forward.

Report: Dartford 0 Gillingham 5

Having worked on sharpening up in the days before the game, Harris said: “Running wise we have been absolutely fine in games, the lads have been excellent in pre-season training, covered a lot of distance, straight line running, training-wise, but short sharp stuff we looked slightly behind Millwall, certainly, a Championship side.

“Against Charlton we lacked a bit in both boxes and in the last couple of days we have worked on attack versus defence, sharpening up, defensively and attacking-wise, in the last 22 yards of the pitch.

“We blocked a lot defensively and they asked a lot of questions of us. Physically we had to stand up to it.

“In the final third, I thought we were excellent, we scored five, we could and should have had eight or nine.

“It was a great opportunity for us to practice with the ball and I was really pleased with us, with where we are after four weeks of pre-season.

“This was a really good test for us in a different way.

“We played Dover and dominated the ball, we weren’t sharp at all, won comfortably. Como was a really good fixture against a side who play in a league a lot higher than ours but maybe they were quite a way behind us physically and that was quite an even game.

“The Millwall and Charlton games I thought we played really well for 45-60 minutes but not over the 90, coming out the wrong end of the results in both the games against teams higher up the pyramid. But on